Fall
term.For 1970 and 1971, average
grade awarded; estimated from percent honors, high pass, pass and fail
grades.Average grade awarded, 1972-1978.Earlier and later years (through 2013)
are confidential.

Note: In
1978, Dean Martin Griffin said about the cessation (temporary it turned out) of
grade inflation, "I don't see how it could have gotten much higher."
At the time, 43% of YaleÕs A through F grades were AÕs, a nearly four-fold
increase from the grade equivalent to an A in 1963. In 2013, Yale issued a
public statement that 62% of its grades were AÕs.That percentage included all grades, not
just A through F.In 2014, a report
(see below) noted that 68.3% of all grades were AÕs in the 2013 Fall semester.There are only two other schools in our database where the percentage of
AÕs exceeds 67%.

1970

3.08

1971

3.13

1972

3.11

1973

3.21

1974

3.24

1975

3.25

1976

3.24

1977

3.23

1978

3.23

Source:

Women
At Yale: A Statistical Profile 1969-1979, Office of Institutional Research,
October 1979

Report to
Dean Mary Miller from the Ad Hoc Committee on Grading, February 2014, http://yalecollege.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/gradingreport201402.pdf